Pinpointing when birds diverged completely from dinosaurs has long remained a paleontological mystery.

Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...

A research team led by Professor Wang Min from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

Some whittled down to just 30 percent of their original size, an adaptation to increasing temperatures known as the ...

Scientists have confirmed that a set of skeletal fossils discovered in southern China belonged to duck-billed dinosaurs from ...

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